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Wistala's Tale, January 10, 2007
Dragon Avenger by E.E. Knight is the second book in the Age of Fire cycle. It tells the tale of Wistala, the sister of Dragon Champion's Auron. The book starts in the same place as the first. With the hatching of the clutch in the cave. and for the first several chapters, it tells the same story, but through Wistala's viewpoint. This time when Wistala and Auron part, she believes he is the one who dies.
Wistala takes off to find her father who flew off to exact vengeance upon the Wheel of Fire Dwarves who betrayed them. She even manages to find him, near death from his rash attack, and spends some time trying to nurse him back to health. Being a coming of age story, of course the outcome of this reunion is bound to be temporary, and it is. Wistala is forced to flee and is nearly killed by the Dragonblade. Tala, though is rescued by a kindly elf named Rainfall. and she spends the majority of the book growing up in his company. Not a lot of avenging going on yet huh? just a lot of talking cats, and mules, Well the avenging does come. Events lead to Wistala getting the opportunity to take revenge on all who have wronged her, and her family, and she takes full advantage.
I liked the book, it was a light entertaining read for the most part. It felt more like a young adult novel than Champion did. Perhaps it was because of the different feel from the Dragonelles perspective. Perhaps it was where the first book had talking wolves, this one had cats, and horses, and mules, and buzzards. Perhaps I just didn't notice it in the first book. Anyway, Knight does a nice job of expanding his world. We see different areas than we did with Auron. We learn more about the history of the land. He also creates characters that you get attached too. I found myself saddened by the loss of certain characters. Its a worthy follow up to Dragon Champion. The next book in the series is slated to be about the little maimed Copper. I look forward to it.
7 out of 10
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Another amazing story for kids or adults., January 4, 2007
I'm not one for sappy anthropomorphic animal tales and, as with Dragon Champion, this is definitely not that. Dragon Avenger is a no-holds-barred look at the life of a dragon whose family is mercilessly slaughtered by humanoid races. But things aren't black-and-white in Knight's creation as one finds in most other stories - not all humanoids are bad, not all dragons are good. As is Knight's style, all is not always what it seems.
I was concerned about how Knight would pull off re-telling the story of AuRon's and Wistala's family's murder, but he did it wonderfully. Though they are - at their most basic - the same first few chapters, the difference in the points of view between AuRon (Dragon Champion) and Wistala (Dragon Avenger) read as different as any two true accountings of events between two different people. Throughout the two books I was amazed at how well Knight kept the two stories completely separate - there was no rehashing or plot regurgitation anywhere (something I seriously dislike in most other serial writing). Each book - as each dragon - is its own creation and wholly independent of the other. I cannot wait for Book Three!
E. E. Knight is a master storyteller and creator of characters, settings, and cunning plots. Wistala's travels from nest to the climactic ending are filled with life and color keeping the reader eager to know what comes next. And though she's a dragon, Knight's personification of Wistala makes it easy for the reader to fit into her shoes - er, claws.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another ambitious novel, January 2, 2007
After reading the first novel, I picked this up and was startled to realize that is from the perspective of yet another dragon, but not the one in the first book. At first this turned me off, because I thought, how can he write another dragon personality? I realized, that after reading this excellent novel that my main concerns applied to other authors, because Knight has created two distinct and separate personalities, that of the dragon in this book, and AuRon in the previous.
I do have to say it is refreshing to read a novel where the stereotypes do not apply. If you enjoyed the previous novel you should definitely pick it up, you will anticipate the third book much more.
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